Love, no matter what

[dragonyphoenix]

So a story about someone being upset because his son liked the color pink reminded me of this Andrew Solomon's Love, no matter what TED talk:  "When I was perhaps six years old, I went to a shoe store with my mother and my brother. And at the end of buying our shoes, the salesman said to us that we could each have a balloon to take home. My brother wanted a red balloon, and I wanted a pink balloon. My mother said that she thought I'd really rather have a blue balloon. But I said that I definitely wanted the pink one. And she reminded me that my favorite color was blue. The fact that my favorite color now is blue, but I'm still gay -- (Laughter) -- is evidence of both my mother's influence and its limits."

Comments

[baronjanus]

humans are fucking psychotic - in the original sense, of someone who has only a tenuous hold in reality. because colours, that's totally a relevant thing.

[dragonyphoenix]

They were raised to think it was important. Heck, there are still people who dress their babies to be easily identified as boy or girl, which makes no sense to me.

[maramcreates]

Thanks for sharing this link, it was a good talk. His book, 'Far From The Tree,' is really good, by the way (pretty hefty though).